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Re: Make ALSA sound work in VMWare

30. Oct 6, 2009 5:53 PM in response to: xbalanque
Click to view bbhavsar's profile Enthusiast 79 posts since
Apr 1, 2008
VMware Workstation 7.0 and VMware Player 3.0 now supports ALSA on Linux hosts http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/workstation

Better late than never...

--Bankim.

Re: Make ALSA sound work in VMWare

31. Oct 13, 2009 1:22 AM in response to: bbhavsar
Click to view larryleffa's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Oct 13, 2009

Inspired by this thread I tried the following:

start-vmware:
#! /bin/bash
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libaoss.so exec aoss /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware "$@"

start-vmplayer:
#! /bin/bash
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libaoss.so exec aoss /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmplayer "$@"

Works for me like a charm. Tried with VMware-Workstation v6.5.3.185404 on a Gentoo-Linux X86_64 with alsa-oss.

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Larry

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